In This Episode:
How does a leader make a mark on a large company or organization? What skills does it require? In this episode, Denise Silber and HAE guest Martha Crawford, PhD, Dean of the Jack Welch School of College and Technology analyze the components of impactful leadership. Learn how Martha’s exceptional leadership skills helped her survive several crises, transition between business, the public sector, and academia, and move from the Marshall Islands to Paris and back to the Northeast, all while staying true to her lifelong passion for sustainable development.
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A Glimpse of What you’ll Learn
How growing up in a family of 12 is like a leadership training camp
How to lead a complex organization
How one person can be a leader in totally different kinds of organizations
How to advance sustainable development
How to digitize an academic curriculum in record time
Resources mentioned in this episode
Martha Crawford Dean, Jack Welch College of Business and Technology
Martha Crawford is the Dean of the Jack Welch College of Business and Technology (Sacred Heart University) in Fairfield, CT. Welch College provides fully integrated undergraduate and graduate programs in Business, Computer Science, and Engineering. Throughout her career, Crawford has been laser-focused on promoting sustainable development through concrete actions. After 20 years in France where she worked as the CTO for several multi-national corporations, Crawford returned to the United States and to academia, in 2016, with a faculty position at Harvard Business School, prior to joining Sacred Heart in 2019. She holds MS and PhD degrees in Environmental Engineering from Harvard University and an MBA from the prestigious French College des Ingénieurs.